Under-rated Guitars
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Nightburst
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Epi LP Custom! If you can find a good one.
Epi LP Custom! If you can find a good one.
texasguitarslinger
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Epi Les Paul Classic
Epi Les Paul Classic
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Only the tops on the Pro Jet and Double Jets are painted, like a gold top. The rest is a walnut stain. It certainly looks like Mahogany and given the weight I'd say it is, in fact, Mahogany. The maple top, however, is laminated.
The Double Jet I played was great and I'm definitely considering a Pro Jet as my next new guitar.
big_black said:
Only the tops on the Pro Jet and Double Jets are painted, like a gold top. The rest is a walnut stain. It certainly looks like Mahogany and given the weight I'd say it is, in fact, Mahogany. The maple top, however, is laminated.
The Double Jet I played was great and I'm definitely considering a Pro Jet as my next new guitar.
muttonchopsrule
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ahhhh! i used to have one of those! but the neck snapped :banghead:
good thing i kept the body, and all the hardware. one of these days when i quit putting it off, i'm going to rebuild it.
FenderBoy said:
ahhhh! i used to have one of those! but the neck snapped :banghead:
good thing i kept the body, and all the hardware. one of these days when i quit putting it off, i'm going to rebuild it.
beandip
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I only read the first post of this, so I'm just forgetting all the rest of you guys. I gots me a ES-125 as well (1952), and it's a very very under rated guitar, expecially for slide use (which is what I use it for). Alot of folks dont like it unplugged, because of the plinky sound it has due to the laminate body, but plugged in, it's a friggin beast. Deff. one of the most underrated guitars of all time, and pretty much everything made by Samick is underrated.
I only read the first post of this, so I'm just forgetting all the rest of you guys. I gots me a ES-125 as well (1952), and it's a very very under rated guitar, expecially for slide use (which is what I use it for). Alot of folks dont like it unplugged, because of the plinky sound it has due to the laminate body, but plugged in, it's a friggin beast. Deff. one of the most underrated guitars of all time, and pretty much everything made by Samick is underrated.
bluey@sunni
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If you can get hold of Australian Guitar Issue 42 I'm the tragic S.Yairi #1 on the feedback page. The truth may hurt but it's not as bad as being ripped off by a label.
What about a early Yamaha SG2000 or a Cort 000 solid cedar top 12 fret acoustic with a Fishman Prefix preamp.
The SG2000 proved that the Japanese really could build electric guitars, at the time Fender and Gibson really were very average (could have something to do with being owned by big corporations).
The Cort 000 unit, I don't know the model, is something I should have bought there and then. If Robert Johnson was a Korean he would of played one of these! The most impressive acoustic I've ever played and I've played them all from a late '60's Martin D28, Maton TE and Messiah, Taylor's and Collings' none have the "tone" of that Cort.
As for electric's I think the best advice is to play everything with a 'blindfold', and ask yourself does it fit your needs regarding feel, tone and the really strange one of "synenergy". Does it fit you and you it. As a friend of mine once said "If the guitar feel's right but the sound isn't right the sound can be fixed but never the feel." That was spoken by a 14 year old when I was 13 and that was a very long time ago.
As an aside for the poor people who are don't know Maton are an Australian guitar company who make both acoustics and electrics and have done since 1946. The TE is for Tommy Emmanuel one of the few players to get awarded a "CGP", that's a "Certified Guitar Player" citation awarded by the state of Tennessee. The late Chet Atkins was also a CGP, which really means that you can't get a real job so better be good at playing that guitar.
If you can get hold of Australian Guitar Issue 42 I'm the tragic S.Yairi #1 on the feedback page. The truth may hurt but it's not as bad as being ripped off by a label.
What about a early Yamaha SG2000 or a Cort 000 solid cedar top 12 fret acoustic with a Fishman Prefix preamp.
The SG2000 proved that the Japanese really could build electric guitars, at the time Fender and Gibson really were very average (could have something to do with being owned by big corporations).
The Cort 000 unit, I don't know the model, is something I should have bought there and then. If Robert Johnson was a Korean he would of played one of these! The most impressive acoustic I've ever played and I've played them all from a late '60's Martin D28, Maton TE and Messiah, Taylor's and Collings' none have the "tone" of that Cort.
As for electric's I think the best advice is to play everything with a 'blindfold', and ask yourself does it fit your needs regarding feel, tone and the really strange one of "synenergy". Does it fit you and you it. As a friend of mine once said "If the guitar feel's right but the sound isn't right the sound can be fixed but never the feel." That was spoken by a 14 year old when I was 13 and that was a very long time ago.
As an aside for the poor people who are don't know Maton are an Australian guitar company who make both acoustics and electrics and have done since 1946. The TE is for Tommy Emmanuel one of the few players to get awarded a "CGP", that's a "Certified Guitar Player" citation awarded by the state of Tennessee. The late Chet Atkins was also a CGP, which really means that you can't get a real job so better be good at playing that guitar.
